Top EM doc who treated COVID patients dies by suicide

April 27, 2020 | 2:38 PM A top emergency room doctor at a major Manhattan hospital died by suicide Sunday, according to her father. Dr. Lorna M. Breen, medical director of the emergency department at NewYork-Presbyterian Allen Hospital, died in Charlottesville, Virginia, where she was staying with family, her father said in an interview. Her father, Dr. Philip C. Breen, said she had described devastating scenes of the toll the coronavirus took on patients. “She tried to do her job, and it... Top EM doc who treated COVID patients dies by suicide
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